Last Week in Horror: June 15th to the 22nd

Last Week in Horror the only important thing that occured was the untimely passing of Stan Winston.  I recommend all fans head over and read Ain’t it Cool’s tribute to the man, which features write-ins from the artists’ friends, who range from James Cameron to Greg Nicotero to Alan Scott to Rick Baker to Fred Dekker.

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• THE DESCENT 2 – Behind the Scenes
• BABYLON A.D. – I’m a sucker for D&D playing Vin Diesel when he does Sci-Fi.  Scorn me.

Studio News and Attachments

• Clive Barker wants people to write to Lionsgate to “save” MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN.

Remakes

• Rumor has it now that Josh Brolin is up for the remake role of Snake Plisken.
• Ali Lohan auditioning for the little gal in TROLL.
• MIRRORS really needs to up their marketing game.  I’m down for the flick, but man, all they’ve shown so far is Squaresville.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• Although no one contacted him about it, Tom Jane wants the title role in undead comic adaptation HEX.  So he had a friend scar him up, take some pictures and send them unsolicited to Warner Brothers.  Further evidence as to why I love Tom Jane.  He cosplays.
• Victor Salva, of all folk, spills that he and Del Howison have been pitching a TV horror anthology called, of course, Dark Delicacies that would be hosted Hitchcock style by Clive Barker.
• KFC brings out their lawyers to stop THE KENTUCKY FRIEND HORROR SHOW.
• Nick Wechsler does the obvious thing and options THROTTLE, the novella written by Joe Hill and Stephen King that won’t even be published until 2009.
• On June 25th Spain gets an extensive, English language friendly DVD set that dives deep into the three short films of Nacho Cerda.  One of those is AFTERMATH, a masterpiece in my book.  If you’ve got a region free player, it’ll run you about $22 before shipping.

Indie/Foreign Trailers and Clips

*Crickets*